Active clinical trials for "Tachycardia"

This is a two-part, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of etripamil NS self-administered by patients who experience an episode of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia (PSVT) in an at-home setting. Part 1 comprised the conduct of the NODE-301 study up to the date of the adjudication of 150th positively adjudicated PSVT episode and Part 2 comprises the conduct of the NODE-301 study after the completion of Part 1. The RAPID Study (NODE-301 - Part 2) will enroll patients enrolled during Part 1 who had not dosed with the double-blind study drug, or had not discontinued the study before the adjudication of the 150th positively adjudicated PSVT episode in Part 1, and patients enrolled into the study following the completion of Part 1. Enrollment will continue until and for approximately 6 months after the date of the adjudication of the 180th positively adjudicated PSVT episode. The study will include the following visits: A Screening Visit, A Test Dose Randomization Visit, Monthly Follow-up Visits, A Randomized Treatment Period, A Randomized Treatment Period Follow-Up Visit, An Open-Label Treatment Period, and A Final Study Visit.

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) occurs in approximately 500,000 Americans, but predominates in women with a 5:1 ratio. Patients with POTS experience debilitating tachycardia upon postural changes such as standing that impairs their quality of life. Tachycardia is clinically defined as a heart rate greater than 100 beats/min; and in POTS patients, the prolonged heart rate increase is greater than 30 beats/min or increases to 120 beats/min within the first ten minutes of a diagnostic tilt table test without postural hypotension. There are currently no effective treatment methods for POTS. However, several studies suggest Ivabradine could be a main treatment option for POTS because Ivabradine specifically inhibits the f-channels (If) within the sinoatrial (SA) node, which slows the heart rate. Currently in the US, Ivabradine is mainly prescribed to treat chronic heart failure. It is well tolerated in patients, but it is not commonly prescribed for POTS. It has been also used for treatment of inappropriate sinus tachycardia with good benefit. The hypothesis for this experiment is that Ivabradine will reduce tachycardia and improve functional status in patients with POTS.

The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the clinical safety of a contact force sensing RF ablation catheter when used for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. In addition, the study will characterize the use and value of contact force measurement during ablation, and the long term success (12 months) of the ablation procedure using this technology.

Catheter ablation has proven to be an effective treatment option in patients suffering from symptomatic persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Catheter ablation consists of two major steps: (1) Isolation of pulmonary veins to abolish the trigger of atrial fibrillation and (2) modification of left atrial and eventually right atrial substrate by ablation of complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE). CFAE are mainly found at the ostia of the pulmonary veins, around the left atrial appendage, at the mitral annulus and the septum. When ablating CFAE 40-65% of the patients show a regularization of AF to an atrial tachycardia (AT) that can be macro- or micro-reentrant (localized re-entry). Until now the significance of the AT is unclear. In the following study we examine the hypothesis that an ablation of AT occuring during CFAE ablation (group 1) significantly improves outcome defined as freedom of atrial arrhythmia (AF or AT) compared to patients that are cardioverted when AF has regularized to AT (group 2).

This clinical investigation is a device-based open, prospective, multicenter two-arm randomized trial, comparing patients who are treated in the slow VT zone versus patients who are not treated in that zone. The device intended to be used is the OVATIOTM CRT model 6750 but future generation of Sorin Group/ ELA Medical devices may be used provided they are CE marked. Ethics committees and health authorities will be informed prior to any use of a newer device if applicable. All patients will have a 3-zone detection configuration programmed. The slow VT zone will be defined by programming the detection parameters as follows: Slow VT detection rate: 100 bpm (or if the resting rate is higher than 80 bpm, we recommend to adjust this parameter to: resting rate + 30 bpm) VT detection rate: 150 bpm PARAD+ will be the first choice for SVT/ST and VT discrimination in the VT zones. The Fast VT and VF limits are left to investigator's judgment. Therapy on VT, fast VT and VF are also left to the investigator's judgment. Patients will be randomized at implant to have the slow VT zone programmed as a monitoring zone (monitoring arm) or to have therapies programmed within the slow VT zone (therapy arm). The randomization table will be generated by Sorin Group/ELA Medical.

The MAGMA-AVNRT study compares two different methods of handling the ablation catheters for av-node-reentry-tachycardia with regard to x-ray dose, safety and success: manually guided vs magnetically navigated RF-catheter.

The purpose of the Advisa IPG clinical study is to evaluate the overall system safety and clinical performance of the Advisa DR Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG).

The purpose of this study is to study the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation and ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia using a RF ablation catheter with contact force sensing capabilities.

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of calcium channel blockers and adenosine in the treatment of Supraventricular Tachycardia.

We propose to randomize automatic external cardioverter/defibrillators (AECD) in patients who are at high risk for life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) and are admitted to the telemetry ward, all other treatments being constant including cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We hypothesize that the automatic, rapid, accurate and specific diagnostic and therapeutic technology used in AECDs will further increase the rate of survival in patients with cardiac arrest through rapid and automatic defibrillation, independent of operator initiation, as compared to standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation initiated by healthcare providers.